Kamiakin DECA and Link Crew Sponsor Second Harvest Food Drive

Kamiakin DECA and Link Crew, led by students Sedale Garcia and Juan Pedraza, worked extremely hard this year to run a successful food drive. Not only were 2,891 pounds of food collected, last year’s total of 2,861 pounds was beat! With all the food collected a total of 481 families can be fed for a week. The food drive at Kamiakin was from November 10-23 providing two weeks to collect as much food as possible.

This food drive was successful due to great advertising. Link Crew and DECA participated in making posters and hanging them around the school. The food drive information was on the background of all computer desktops, and on the reader board outside the cafeteria. The variety of advertising techniques helped to collect a lot of food.

Every classroom was given a list of needed items and boxes to fill with food. To provide additional incentives, the winning first hour class would receive a pizza party. Mr. Young’s first period class won with a total of 48 boxes! On November 24th at 8:00 am KNDU videotaped DECA and LINK Crew students putting the boxes collected into the Second Harvest truck. This was a great hands-on experience for all the students and a project that supported our local community!